The QPS/Muslim
reference
group
meeting held
during week
received a
huge
turnout, so
much so that
co-ordinator
of the
forum, Sgt
Jim Bellos
told CCN:
"At the rate
this
reference
group is
growing we
may need to
look for
another
venue as
(Wednesday)
night's
large
conference
was unable
to
accommodate
everyone."

IRAN: AN
ELECTORAL candidate in Iran has been denied
a place on city council despite winning
enough votes because she is deemed to be
"too attractive".

The Independent reports that Nina Siahkali
Moradi, 27, received 10,000 votes, placing
her 14th out of 163 candidates for the city
of Qazvin elections.

The council
only elects the first 13 across the line but
the person placed 14th is listed as "the
first reserve."

However, when
the elected mayor gave up his seat, Ms
Moradi was disqualified.

"We don’t
want a catwalk model on the council," a
senior Qazvin official was quoted as saying
in the Times.

Ms Moradi is
a graduate student of architecture.

The
International Campaign for Human Rights in
Iran said that the disqualification was
apparently because of her "non-observance of
Islamic codes", and that her campaign
posters were the basis for complaints from
senior conservative rivals.

"Almost
10,000 people voted for me and based on that
I should be the first alternate member of
the City Council," Ms Moradi told local
media.

A challenge
may be considered because it is illegal to
disqualify someone who had initially been
qualified to run for office, as Ms Moradi
had been.

It could be a
test for Iran's new President Hassan Rowhani,
who has vowed to stand up for women.

"Women work
but don’t enjoy equal rights. I will form a
women’s affairs ministry to return their
trampled rights to them," he said prior to
his election.

Lady Gaga has
evidently plummeted to new lows with the
leak of her new track Burqa. While her
appropriation of the burqa pre-dates the
leak, the song has proven to be yet another
degrading, exotification of Muslim women
enforcing the “saviour” attitude that is so
popular in the West, which views Muslim
women of all nationalities as outsiders who
need to be liberated from their supposed
perpetual prison.

As a Muslim living in North America, I
couldn’t function in just a hijab, the most
covert of the Muslim garbs. People threw
rocks at me, asked me ignorant/offensive
questions like why I chose to subject myself
to an “inherently patriarchal religion,”
called me a terrorist, and so many more
incidences I can’t even keep track. Yet it’s
totally cool to play dress-up with hair and
face coverings as long as it doesn’t have
anything to do with an actual Muslim?
Newsflash: It’s not a costume for you to
wear, it’s not another one of your
attention-seeking meat/frog dresses, it’s a
symbol of my religion NOT a fashion
statement.

UK: Muslim
leaders in the French city of Lyon said on
Monday they feared a surge in attacks on
mosques in the style of one averted last
week in which a soldier was arrested on
suspicion of planning a shooting during an
Islamic feast holiday.

Anti-Muslim
incidents have risen steadily in recent
years in France, home to Europe's largest
Islamic minority, according to the Committee
against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), which
blames anti-Muslim rhetoric by far-right
politicians.

A far-right
activist said such violence had been
provoked by government efforts to suppress
"nationalist movements" that provided a
legitimate outlet for discontent.

Kamel Kabtane,
imam of the Grand Mosque of Lyon, called on
local Muslims to gather for a show of
solidarity at the suburban Minguettes
Mosque, which police said the soldier
arrested on Saturday planned to shoot at on
the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday.

The
23-year-old, from an air force base near
Lyon, was placed under formal investigation
on Monday, accused of "possessing category 4
ammunitions in relation to a terrorist
undertaking".

Described by
the interior ministry as holding extreme
right-wing views, he was also accused of
lobbing a Molotov cocktail at a mosque near
Bordeaux last year.

"There is a
clear will today to hurt the Muslim
community," Kabtane said, adding that two
minor acts had been carried out against
mosques in southeastern France over the
weekend.

"These are no
longer isolated acts. It feels like there is
a whole organisation being put in place," he
said.

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Teacher: Imam Aslam Al Qadri
For any further information please contact me on 0433552409
or ladies can contact Shakira Ayoob on 0449800205.

Bald Hills Mosque Weekly Tafseer

The weekly program schedule is as follows:
Mondays: Tafseer
Wednesdays: Tafseer
The above lessons will start at 7:30 pm and will go for
approximately 1/2 an hour each day.
All brothers and sisters are welcome.

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